What a nightmare it would be to see your 2007 forecast earnings less than expected, Capital One Bank does!

Not a big fan of BBC World, from time to time I take a look at the articles. Interesting aspect of blogs like cafealaturca is the chance to catch up with an article, although you might have missed it on its release day. Well, this is a fresh one. But, it might go stale if you read this post in the future. Your best bet is to subscribe to my RSS Feeds, which are NOT yet available:-) But, the time will come for that as well. Coming soon. Also, podcast and video blog is another theme I want to add to this little cafe we enjoy all together reading, from time to time. I shall suggest some music albums to listen while sipping your Turkish Coffee and reading this blog. Here comes the first one: Harry Gregson Williams - Kingdom of Heaven OST (Original SoundTrack)

Back to the article (you may realize, cafe goes off topic very easily), "Capital One has said it expects to eliminate 2,000 jobs - about 7% of its workforce - as it battles rising competition from rival card companies."Another day fades away to open up space for another new day. If you are new to Cafe A La Turca, welcome, please enjoy your Turkish Coffee.I don't know which coffee is this one, but looks similar to Turkish Coffee:-)
I shall provide you more insight about the similarities and differences between all those coffee types in the surrounding area of Turkey. Shall we call in short the pre-Ottoman Empire countries?

Whole Food Stores, Trader Joe's, vs. Food with Industrial Chemicals

After reading the news article in BusinessWeek, it is not difficult to make a better choice (still due to affordability) to prefer Natural Grocery Stores like Whole Food or Trader Joe's (my favorite, very good price, would highly recommend their 1lt. German Mineral Water).
"China has closed 180 food factories after inspectors found industrial chemicals being used in products from candy to seafood, state media said Wednesday."
Further, "Meanwhile, another regulating agency, China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said it closed 152,000 unlicensed food manufacturers and retailers last year for making fake and low-quality products."

The big question is How Much Are We Informed through the labels on the food products. Like that 50 cent Great Value Tuna, or Soda Pops at Save a Lot??? Are we safe?

Still, we make our own decisions. For lower price, we can eat more variety. Or, we can choose to eat high quality with low quantity :-)

I use Google, but is Google using/utilizing me?

I liked Google, not just because everybody says Google It, rather than Yahoo It, or MSN It.
The term, Google It, became very associated with the English phrase, search something online.
It is all fine, but what does Google do when we Google It.
Whenever a student has a question, he/she raises the hand and ask the question.
We are all students of this G-Universe, and we are clicking on Google and click one more time for Google Search button.

Well, Google Daddy never forgets our visit, especially if we use personal computers. There has been a long debate going on about how fair Google is utilizing personal data. Recently, they published an article on their Official Google Blog. They say,

"We have a legitimate interest in retaining search server logs for a number of reasons:

• to improve our search algorithms for the benefit of users
• to defend our systems from malicious access and exploitation attempts
• to maintain the integrity of our systems by fighting click fraud and web spam
• to protect our users from threats like spam and phishing
• to respond to valid legal orders from law enforcement as they investigate and prosecute serious crimes like child exploitation; and
• to comply with data retention legal obligations."

And I say, fine, Google It :-)